- "and when i see you/ i really see you upside down/ but my brain knows better/ and picks you up and turns you around"
- "the mighty continents divided/ for a second time, in all history/ the found themselves just floating free/ from all responsibility"
- "johanna drove slowly into the city/ the Hudson River all filled with snow"
- "chase the high ground/ where you'd rather be/ where you might be found"
- "if your right hand is causing you pain/ cut it off cut it off"
- "come up to meet you, tell you i'm sorry/ you don't know how lovely you are"
- "fill these spaces up with days/ in my room, you can go/ you can stay"
- "i've had a little bit too much- much/ all of the people start to rush- start to rush by"
- "the storm is coming/ but i don't mind/ people are dying/ i close my blinds"
- "we've been waiting all our lives/ for things we've always had but have no eyes to see."
- "o the minarets of constantinople/ are plated gold, ivory and opal/ their cupolas all onion-domed and light"
- "help, i have done it again/ i have been here many times before"
- "we watch the season pull up its own stakes/ and catch the last weekend of the last week"
- "i saddled up my pony right, and rode into the ghostly night"
- "baby, you lookin' fine/ i’ll have you open all night like an IHOP"
- "golden rod and the 4-H stone/ the things i brought you/ when i found out you had cancer of the bone"
- "you need to stop playing round with all them clowns and the wangstas/ good girls gotta get down with the gangstas"
- "i was a quick, wet boy/ diving too deep for coins/ all of your street light eyes/ wide on my plastic toys"
- "calling you to wake/ shouting in my car that's stalled outside/ and it's pure coincidence i'm sure/ falling from my mouth, secondary doubts I've found myself in"
- "daddy please, hear this song that sing/ in your heart, there's a spark that screams"
- "it was the first minute of a new year/ you were cranky, i was full of good cheer"
- "my crane wife arrived at my door in the moonlight/ all star-bright and tong tied"
- "my hands are searching for you/ my arms are outstretched towards you/ i feel you on my fingertips/ my tongue dances behind my lips for you"
- "and i'd give up forever to touch you/ 'cause i know that you feel me somehow"
- "i don't know you/ but i want you/ all the more for that"
- "rolled around on kitchen floors/ tied my tongue in pretty bows with yours"
- "in december drinking horchata/ i'd look psychotic in a balaclava"
- "when you were young you were the king of carrot flowers/ and how you built a tower tumbling through the trees/ in holy rattle snakes that fell all around your feet"
may 14 2010 ∞
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